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Bettie Hicks Charleston Program 26 February 2014 Weekly Session #2 On our third day traveling to Charleston through CU_LIFE, our second session was instructed by Dr. Manning-White, math coordinator in Richland District I. She gave us a brief background on her personal and professional life. Learning about the person teaching you is important because it shows you who they are, which makes you more inclined to learn from them. Dr. Manning White allowed us to introduce ourselves, and she immediately began her presentation. She expressed how her three presentations would be based on strategies for teaching mathematics Common Core Style, since Common Core is being fully implemented in the next full school year. She briefly introduced the Common Core Math State Standards by pulling up the website on the Smart Board for us to acknowledge. We all discussed with her how our teachers in the School of Education are relaying the information about Common Core in comparison to how we see the implementation in the classrooms. I expressed the significant difference and how all students are not benefiting from Common Core Math Standards. The students are not succeeding through Common Core because the teachers are not teaching according to the new Common Core State Standards. While having this very interesting discussion, we completed the K & W in a KWL chart on Common Core State Standards. Dr. Manning-White expressed what Common Core State Standards actually are. Some of what she said include: aligned with college and work expectations, focused and coherent, include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills, build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards, internationally benchmarked so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society, and based on evidence and research. She explained the importance of Common Core State Standards. Currently, every state has its own set of academic standards, meaning public education students in each state are learning to different levels. All students must be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world. For South Carolina, the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 School years were Transition Years. The 2013-2014 School year is considered the Bridge Year, where Common Core State Standards will be used for instructional purposes. The 2014-2015 school year will be the first year of Full Implementation to Common Core State Standards. She gave us the Common Core website in case we had any more questions on this serious subject matter. Dr. Manning-White explained how for her job she has to be an expert on Common Core State Standards because she is the math coordinator for the entire Richland I District in Columbia, South Carolina, which is the capital of the state. She also emphasized the importance of her job because the math teachers in the district model after her, get tips and strategies of teaching math from her, and look to her for teaching math advice.

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